In the midst of winter

Description:

In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile, for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia.

subjects: Human rights,  Extranjeros indocumentados,  Profesorado,  Universidades,  Ficcion,  Fiction,  Derechos humanos,  Women illegal aliens,  Women college teachers,  Ficción,  College teachers,  Love in middle age,  History,  FICTION / General,  FICTION / Historical,  FICTION / Literary,  Man-woman relationships,  Traffic accidents,  Illegal aliens,  College teachers, fiction,  Chile, fiction,  Guatemala, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Fiction, romance, contemporary,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2017-11-19,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Romance literature,  College teachers -- Fiction,  Women college teachers -- Fiction,  Women illegal aliens -- Fiction,  Human rights -- Fiction,  New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction,  Guatemala -- Fiction,  Chile -- Fiction,  Women noncitizens,  Illegal immigration,  Undocumented Immigrants,  General,  Historical,  Literary,  Colleges and universities,  Faculty,  Noncitizens

Places: Guatemala,  New York (N.Y.),  Chile,  New York,  New York (State)

Times: Coup d'état, 1973